Poll: Do you buy cage eggs?

[capper42]

As much as I would ethically prefer to buy free range eggs, I'm a student. I know it's an excuse but fuck it, it just doesnt seem worth it to buy free range for twice the price with the amount of money I have to live on. Maybe when I'm older and earn more money.

 

[Eisenfaust]

I think I read somewhere that the definition of "free-range" is just that the animals have access to the outside - how farmers interpret this is entirely up to them - a square foot or 200 square feet, so long as it's outside - it all counts as "free-range", so it may in effect be nothing special beyond a triplicated price and a claim of moral superiority...

not that I care, I eat whatever is bought for me (still living at home)... but no, I have no compunction either way, free range or battery

 

[therandombear]

I think you can only get free roaming eggs here, at least it says "from free roaming chickens" on all the cartons in the store.

 

[dyre]

Eggs from caged chickens is bad? Tell me more about the clothes you wear made in Indonesia sweat shops, or the shoes you were made in Chinese sweat shops. Or the computer you use made in Chinese Drone factories. Selective hippy is selective.

I was going to say something along those lines, though possibly in a nicer way. Pretty much everything we consume comes at the cost of someone else suffering unjustly. Free range chicken people strike me as something like KONY 2012 people - willing to latch on and aggressively preach any cause that gets thrown at them by the media.

 

[FamoFunk]

Free Range, same goes for meat especially. I don't want to feed myself or my children crappy poor quality meats.

I should add we very, very rarely eat eggs and we buy meat on offer/reduced and freeze it and don't eat meat everyday because we're not made of money like 99% of Escapists.

 

[Yopaz]

We used to have a farm and only eat fresh eggs from chickens that were given plenty of room and even had the choice to go outside in the summers. These days I don't so I only buy free range eggs from the store.

 

[capper42]

Eggs from caged chickens is bad? Tell me more about the clothes you wear made in Indonesia sweat shops, or the shoes you were made in Chinese sweat shops. Or the computer you use made in Chinese Drone factories. Selective hippy is selective.

I was going to say something along those lines, though possibly in a nicer way. Pretty much everything we consume comes at the cost of someone else suffering unjustly. Free range chicken people strike me as something like KONY 2012 people - willing to latch on and aggressively preach any cause that gets thrown at them by the media.

Free range generally means better quality though, maybe it's a taste thing. If you can afford better quality eggs and see it as a worthwhile cost, why would you not buy them?

 

[dyre]

Eggs from caged chickens is bad? Tell me more about the clothes you wear made in Indonesia sweat shops, or the shoes you were made in Chinese sweat shops. Or the computer you use made in Chinese Drone factories. Selective hippy is selective.

I was going to say something along those lines, though possibly in a nicer way. Pretty much everything we consume comes at the cost of someone else suffering unjustly. Free range chicken people strike me as something like KONY 2012 people - willing to latch on and aggressively preach any cause that gets thrown at them by the media.

Free range generally means better quality though, maybe it's a taste thing. If you can afford better quality eggs and see it as a worthwhile cost, why would you not buy them?

That's clearly not the issue though :|

I mean, I buy Cheerios instead of the Shoprite generic Os brand because it tastes better and might be slightly more nutritious, but I don't make a big fuss about it, lol.

 

[Korolev]

I don't buy cage eggs if at all possible. I've personally seen how messed up those battery cage farms are. I'm no vegetarian, but there are better ways of getting eggs than that. I'm willing to pay a little more to put the birds through less suffering.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not PETA member. I'm no animal-worshipper. I am a humanist and a human-centrist and a fanatical defender of humanity as the only species capable of science. But although I do believe animals are less intelligent (and therefore, less capable and of lesser importance than humans) I do know that they can feel pain. You stick a fork into a Chicken, it will react. You deprive a chicken of water, and it will be distressed. You stick it in a goddamn cage barely large enough to hold it and literally lock its head in place so that it can do nothing but feed and lay eggs, and I can guarantee you that chicken will be stressed the hell out.

Yeah, Chickens aren't human. Not even close to human. Yeah, they don't deserve the same rights as humans. But that doesn't mean they don't deserve any rights. They deserve to have some freedom of movement. Some air. Some sun.

If you're going to eat eggs, don't buy cage eggs. No animal, except for many flies, and some other insects, deserves the cage treatment.

Again - I'm not PETA person. I'm not a vegetarian. But I do know that animals can feel pain and distress. If they couldn't they never would have survived the wild. Biologically, they have nerves, and they can feel with those nerves. Once again - if you stick a fork into a live chicken, it'll react to that fork. It feels it.

Pay slightly more so that battery cage farming ends. Because that stuff's messed up.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I buy my eggs battery, but only from providers that allow the chickens 35 days holiday a year, and weekends off! Oh, and they must offer a good pension, and a yearly Christmas bonus!

In other words I haven't much of an interest in what I buy, as long as it is lion quality and tastes good I don't really care!

 

[gazumped]

As far as I'm concerned, they are animals, and therefore not sentient, and therefore I don't much care how they're treated.

Okay, I'm not veggie and I don't care about my caged vs free range all that much (like I said, wouldn't buy free range if they were that much more expensive) but... "they are animals, and therefore not sentient"... what do you think humans are, minerals? And considering a lot of non-human animals (including chickens) show problem solving abilities and instant distress in response to pain, what else do you classify as sentience, out of curiosity?

 

[Joel Odonoghue]

Barn eggs is stil bad they pout Abbott 99999 chicks in one tiny barn and at 18 m kil. Them

 

[Joel Odonoghue]

Eggs from caged chickens is bad? Tell me more about the clothes you wear made in Indonesia sweat shops, or the shoes you were made in Chinese sweat shops. Or the computer you use made in Chinese Drone factories. Selective hippy is selective.

I was going to say something along those lines, though possibly in a nicer way. Pretty much everything we consume comes at the cost of someone else suffering unjustly. Free range chicken people strike me as something like KONY 2012 people - willing to latch on and aggressively preach any cause that gets thrown at them by the media.

Free range generally means better quality though, maybe it's a taste thing. If you can afford better quality eggs and see it as a worthwhile cost, why would you not buy them?

 

[him over there]

Animals aren't people therefore their lives are irrelevant.

okay that was a little blase and more than a little harsh but honestly there isn't much of a moral dilemma regarding "Kill something for your own desires" and "kill something in an inhumane way for your own desires."

 

[FalloutJack]

No, I buy carton eggs.

*Rimshot*

 

[Ljs1121]

To me, eggs are eggs, so I don't really pay attention.

 

[Nash]

To me, eggs are eggs, so I don't really pay attention.

But are you sure that eggs is eggs?

 

[soren7550]

Where I shop, they only specify them as eggs, and organic eggs. The organic ones cost more than twice the amount the other eggs do, so due to that and the fact they taste the same, I pick up the regular eggs.

Roomies keep picking up that organic crap though (guess they never saw the episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit on Organic Foods). One time, I remember one of them picked up this horrible tasting organic milk, and insisted we pay a share of it that was enough to pick up a whole gallon of the regular stuff. But I'm getting off topic here.

 

[Ljs1121]

To me, eggs are eggs, so I don't really pay attention.

But are you sure that eggs is eggs?

Oh my...

Everything I know is a lie!

 

[TheTim]

Sorry but eggs are eggs, they still come from chickens and i still make the most delicious scrambled egg mix ever. So i'm going to buy whats cheapest.